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Snow Peaks, Bull Run Mining District, Nevada by Timothy O'Sullivan — VisualArtsDB

Snow Peaks, Bull Run Mining District, Nevada

Snow Peaks, Bull Run Mining District, Nevada

Timothy O'Sullivan

1871

Medium: Albumen print, from the album "Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian," vol. 1
Dimensions: Image/paper: 20.3 × 27.4 cm (8 × 10 13/16 in.); Mount: 39.3 × 49.7 cm (15 1/2 × 19 5/8 in.)
Genre: albumen silver print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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Ruins in Cañon de Chelle, N. M., in a cavity in the wall, 60 feet above present bed of Cañon. Height of walls about 700 feet. The present race of Indians know nothing of the age of these buildings of who occupied them, No. 21 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"

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Camp Beauty, Canñon de Chelle; walls 1.200 feet high, width of Cañon at this point about one fourth of a mile. This view shows the perpendicular effect wrought by the action of floods. The Artist of the Expedition, Mr. Wyant, of New York, made a study of this scene with the intention to paint it as a characteristic Canon view, No. 25 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"

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Head of Cañon de Chelle, Looking Down. Walls about 1200 feet in height

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